How many chips have you killed?

[inspectorhammer]

Does a power supply count?

You know, youd think when a PS got a surge a fuse would blow? But nooo, it just decided to short some wires together and start pumping out some GOD-AWFUL black smoke. And the damn kept running like nothing just happened.

Good ol Intel 40mhz comps. Try to get a northwood to stay up under that.

 

[WarriorII]

1Ghz T-Bird.

I don't know why.

 

[WarriorII]

1Ghz T-Bird.

I don't know why.

EDIT: sorry for the double post.

 

[[OC]Lucifer]

See my sig.. (A moment of silence..)

 

[minoukat]

none, but I killed 2 floppies one after the other, one from breaking a platic jumper and the other by trying to fix the first (opened the casing, it magnetised itself)

 

[Tekman Zash]

I'll tell ya a real phun way to fry a floppy drive. Put sand paper on the inside and put matches around the spinning wheel in the middle then douse it with a lil alcohol and stick her in . Also, I've broken a XP 1500+ by pushing a tad bit too hard on the heatsink/fan when installing it. Hey, s**t happens.

 

[sushi]

I only killed one... A Pentium III 933.

I swear I thought that I had the HSF attached all the way...LOL

 

[LawyerLynn]

Last week, two Athlon XP 2400+ CPU's - one fried as the result of a misguided attempt to obtain the lower multipliers - I guess I got the conductive paint in the wrong place. This in turned fried my Motherboard. Not knowing the MB was fried I replaced the fried CPU with an identical, non-fried one which promptly fried as soon as I plugged it into the fried MB and tried to boot up. After I replaced the MB and got a new 2600+ cpu all is well.

2-3 years ago, a K6-3 450 trying to OC it, got the voltage too high I do believe. I seem to recall zapping a K6-2 400 in the same way right around that time.

9 or more years ago a 486DX2/66 bit the big one when I spilled coke on the MB as I was installing some new RAM. I thought I had gotten it all off and everything had dried out, I found out via the smell and the smoke when I tried to boot up that I was wrong (that cost me a new MB as well).

 

[mdcomp]

Never killed a cpu. I hope I never will. Don't worry, I have killed plenty of other things, like motherboards and stuff.

 

[PCluva]

one scratch in my case for an 1800, from a leaning hs.

I swear it will be the last!!!!

Same thing happened to me with my 1800+

 

[Beast Of Blight]

The only thing I've ever killed is a 40x CDROM.

Don't ask me how, I have NO idea.. just.. went...BZT, and never worked again. ;

 

[Gage8]

NONE! I'm going on my 3rd cpu so hopefully no problems...

 

[asj]

I killed a 850Mhz Duron after crushing the core! worked for around a year with a crushed core! lol! And a 1800+ after not unlocking it right!

 

[Zash]

I murdered a Duron 1.1GHz, Athlon 1.3GHz (Tbird), and a 1600+ Palomino. The 1600+ wasn't my fault though. My friend did it (that b@$t@rd)

 

[Gautam]

Athlon 1ghz, Athlon 900, Athlon 950.

 

[hitechjb1]

Luckily, 0.

 

[o0OBruceLeeO0o]

I have killed one.

An xp1600, by not making sure the hsf was properly seated

 

[Sir Barton]

ive never fried a cpu (knock on wood) but i just fried my A7V333-X this past thursday i had a hankerin' for 200MHz FSB and the fear of a 40MHz PCI didnt scare me...until i got HDD corruption, and after 3 days of diagnosis ive come to find i blew the IDE controller but i got some replacement parts today (see sig) and i think it all happened for a reason.

 

[Andy71600]

lol i killed a pentium 3 733.... gotta love those keychains!

 

[Josebmw]

I killed a Duron 950, Athlon T-bird 1.1 GHz, and a Palomino 1700+. The 1.1 GHz died during a short circuit of one of the power rails, I ended up destroying the video card, motherboard, PSU, HDD and the T-bird. So sad.